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Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat

1788 - 1832

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Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ pjɛʁ abɛl ʁemyza]; 5 September 1788 – 2 June 1832) was a French sinologist best known as the first Chair of Sinology at the Collège de France. Rémusat studied medicine as a young man, but his discovery of a Chinese herbal treatise enamored him with the Chinese language, and he spent five years teaching himself to read it. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat has received more than 52,290 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat is the 314th most popular physician (up from 334th in 2019), the 2,519th most popular biography from France (up from 2,669th in 2019) and the 36th most popular French Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat ranks 314 out of 726. Before him are Eduard Wirths, Jean-Baptiste Denys, Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel, John Latham, Hinrich Lichtenstein, and Johann Christian Reil. After him are Antoine Louis, Masawaiyh, Friedrich von Berchtold, Lorna Wing, Friedrich Hoffmann, and Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1788, Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat ranks 28. Before him are Friedrich Rückert, Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, Carl Reichenbach, Pierre Joseph Pelletier, and Felice Romani. After him are Carl Sigismund Kunth, Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi, FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, Rafael Urdaneta, Pavel Kiselyov, and Duke Eugen of Württemberg. Among people deceased in 1832, Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat ranks 22. Before him are Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince of Sulmona, Franz Xaver von Zach, Jean Maximilien Lamarque, Carl Friedrich Zelter, and Manuel García. After him are Ghazi Muhammad, Princess Maria Anna of Saxony, Aleksander Orłowski, John Leslie, Jean-Antoine Chaptal, and Kaʻahumanu.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat ranks 2,519 out of 6,770. Before him are Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (1735), Emmanuel Carrère (1957), Jean d'Ormesson (1925), Adolphe Nourrit (1802), Carolus-Duran (1837), and Michel de l'Hôpital (1505). After him are Zaz (1980), Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma (1940), Antoine-Louis Barye (1795), Albert, 4th duc de Broglie (1821), Charles Xavier Thomas (1785), and Georges Ohnet (1848).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat ranks 36. Before him are Édouard Séguin (1812), Edmond Locard (1877), Guillaume Dupuytren (1777), Pierre Paul Émile Roux (1853), Michel-Gabriel Paccard (1757), and Jean-Baptiste Denys (1643). After him are Antoine Louis (1723), Louis de Jaucourt (1704), Ernest Duchesne (1874), Jean Pierre Flourens (1794), Pierre Fauchard (1679), and Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard (1742).

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